About The Author

Martin Longman is the web editor of the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Before joining the Monthly, Martin was a county coordinator for ACORN/Project Vote and a political consultant. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.

If Democrats win the Senate, nuke the filibuster for everything. No more “secret” holds where one person in the minority can gum up the works. Trash the “blue slip” judge tradition, too. Strip the minority of power, and then reinstate those rules when the Democrats lose control of the Senate.

Hardball, since it seems like that is the only language Republicans understand.

If this very upbeat prognostication actually comes anywhere near what you describe, the Democrats should damn well be prepared to roll into Washington on political bulldozers and just roll over Republicans. They had better walk in the door with a no compromise position. The GOP should not even have a voice. They own this shit, lock, stock, and barrel. They have earned some time wandering in the desert, and Democrats had better learn how to play by the new rules, the rules created and used by the GOP for decades. If they don’t, they might well never get another chance.